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Welcome to Tufts! If you'd like to jump to a particular location, you can use the drop down menu on the left or click directly on the map above. To explore a location in more detail, you can use the icons below for 360s, photos, and videos. Click on the arrow on the screen to advance along the tour route, or click "Next" at the bottom of the screen to skip to the next stop. We're currently on the academic quad, home to most of our academic department buildings. At Tufts, our education is built on interconnected ideas and disciplines, and students are encouraged to push their comfort zones and take classes outside their major: with classes in the humanities, math, fine arts, English, and science. You'll take classes like Physics for Humanists, Math of Social Choice, History of Rock and Roll, and Economics of Migration all before you commit to a major. Tufts is also a research university with the priorities of a smaller liberal arts college - there are academic opportunities everywhere and you get the support you need from our faculty to actually find them and take advantage of them.
Memorial Steps trail
Humanities at Memorial Steps
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Here, we're standing in front of the Memorial Steps, a historic stairway built to commemorate Tufts men and women who have served in the armed forces from the Civil War to present day. Climb this staircase, and you'll find Miner Hall, home to the Tufts Philosophy Department, which offers an undergraduate major and minor as well as a world-renowned master's degree program. Many Tufts students major in the humanities, with departments ranging from English to Religion to Classics. Regardless of your major, our distribution requirements ensure that you'll have the opportunity to take courses in areas ranging from history to linguistics to literature. The humanities at Tufts teach students HOW to think, not WHAT to think, instilling a mastery of critical thinking, analysis, and persuasive communication—all relevant skills for whichever field you enter after your time at Tufts.
Social Sciences at Packard Hall
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In Packard Hall, you'll find the Department of Political Science, which consistently ranks among the leading undergraduate political science departments in the country. Through topics like American Politics, Comparative Politics, and Political Theory, our students graduate with a deep understanding of the domestic and international political landscape. The International Relations Program, also housed in Packard, offers one of the most popular majors at Tufts and is designed to enrich, challenge, and attract students with a broad range of interests, from International Security to Global Health. Pulling on the strengths in over twenty academic departments, students become skilled critical thinkers and innovators, prepared to take on current and future global challenges. Recent IR grads have gone on to careers in the public and private sectors, to positions in international organizations, and to further study at the world's top graduate schools.
Residential Life at West Hall
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Tufts guarantees on-campus housing for first-years and sophomores, although some juniors and seniors do continue to live on campus. Those who move off campus are never far -the surrounding community is residential and walkable, and students often only move a block or two away from campus. The residence halls are filled with support - from First-Year Assistants to resident tutors and even live-in faculty members, you can always get the guidance or help you need. Most first-year students live in a double room with a roommate, but our dorms also have singles and triples, and there are on-campus apartment buildings for upperclassmen. You can even elect to live in special-interest housing on campus, like the Crafts House, or in a language or culture house. Here you can see West Hall; click below to see a full 360 of a real, first-year room.
Residential Quad
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Here, we see the Residential Quad, home to three of our first-year residence halls: Carmichael, Miller, and Houston. Carmichael Hall also houses one of our two buffet-style dining centers, so some of our lucky first-years don't even have to leave their building for fresh waffles and strawberries in the morning. First-year students are warmly welcomed to campus, with about half of them participating in Pre-Orientation programs. Pre-Os are fully organized, planned, and led by returning student leaders. Whether you're interested in backpacking through the New England wilderness, engaging in community service in Boston, exploring the distinct history and community of Black students at Tufts, or participating in the visual and performing arts scene, there is a program for you. Once on campus, the first-year experience is defined by close-knit residential communities, extracurricular fairs (with over 300 student groups), individualized academic advising from staff and faculty pre-major advisors, and support from peer mentors at the six identity-based resource centers within the Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion. When walking around the Residential Quad, you're sure to see familiar faces and friendly smiles from fellow first-years, while you continually meet new people and expand your communities during your time at Tufts.
Olin Center trail
Languages at Olin Center
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This is the Olin Center, home to our language departments. Here you can study Spanish, German, Swahili, Russian, Italian, Chinese, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Hebrew -- even American Sign Language. Students in the school of Arts and Sciences need six semesters of proficiency in a language and culture other than their own because at Tufts, we recognize the challenges we will face after graduation – in any field - will not be confined to one language or culture. Unique to Tufts is the International Literary and Visual Studies program, which examines global issues through the literature and arts of foreign cultures. In Olin, you can access television programs, newspapers and magazines from all around the world.
Jumbo & Tisch College
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Meet our beloved mascot, Jumbo, once the star of Barnum & Bailey Circus! After Jumbo's death in 1885, P.T. Barnum donated his stuffed hide to the university to stand in the Barnum Museum. Jumbo was often visited by students before exam time, placing a penny on his trunk for good luck. After an electrical fire in the building in 1975 tragically consumed Jumbo's hide, a 5,000 pound replica statue was erected in front of Barnum to commemorate Jumbo. You could say that Tufts students have JUMBO pride. Behind Jumbo stands Barnum Hall, home to the Environmental Studies Program, the Office of Sustainability, the Film and Media Studies Program, studio art spaces, and more. Barnum also houses the Tisch College of Civic Life, a national leader in civic education and engagement. Through special internships, courses, speaker series, and Tufts' first-year global programs, Tisch serves as a hub for Tufts community members committed to changing the world for the better.
Gifford House trail
President's House
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Gifford House is President Anthony Monaco's residence – he lives right here on campus. In fact, the House was built in 1938 and has been the home of the last seven Tufts presidents. President Monaco is an active member of our community - he welcomes student groups to Gifford House for dinner, hands out candy to students on Halloween, and Tweets about all the performances on campus he regularly attends. Tufts' culture of accessibility starts right at the top with President Monaco, a first-generation to college student himself, and filters down into everything we do. With an average class size of 20 and 99% of classes taught by PhD faculty members, you really get the attention and interaction you deserve at Tufts.
President's Lawn trail
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Relax, hang out, study, or nap on the President's Lawn. You can use the lawn for activities as casual as sunbathing or as formal as a spring chamber music concert. President Anthony Monaco himself has been known to join students for sledding down this hill in the winter. At the top of the President's Lawn are Goddard Chapel, a multi-denominational religious center with some of the best acoustics on campus, and the Tufts Cannon, one of our most enduring traditions. The Cannon is painted to advertise events, birthdays, groups and even weddings. But be warned: anyone who paints the cannon has to guard their masterpiece all night or risk another group painting over their work.
President's Lawn
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Relax, hang out, study, or nap on the President's Lawn. You can use the lawn for activities as casual as sunbathing or as formal as a spring chamber music concert. President Anthony Monaco himself has been known to join students for sledding down this hill in the winter. At the top of the President's Lawn are Goddard Chapel, a multi-denominational religious center with some of the best acoustics on campus, and the Tufts Cannon, one of our most enduring traditions. The Cannon is painted to advertise events, birthdays, groups and even weddings. But be warned: anyone who paints the cannon has to guard their masterpiece all night or risk another group painting over their work.
Tour stop audio transcript
Relax, hang out, study, or nap on the President's Lawn. You can use the lawn for activities as casual as sunbathing or as formal as a spring chamber music concert. President Anthony Monaco himself has been known to join students for sledding down this hill in the winter. At the top of the President's Lawn are Goddard Chapel, a multi-denominational religious center with some of the best acoustics on campus, and the Tufts Cannon, one of our most enduring traditions. The Cannon is painted to advertise events, birthdays, groups and even weddings. But be warned: anyone who paints the cannon has to guard their masterpiece all night or risk another group painting over their work.
Tisch Library
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Tisch Library is where you can write a business plan with friends, code an app, work on your latest paper or read one of our 1.2 million books – or one of the millions more you can access through the Boston Library Consortium. You can also rent movies and video equipment at the Digital Media Center or explore our digital mapping center. With enough seating for the entire freshman class, Tisch is your space to study and learn together. It's also home to the Tower Café, where your drink order is on the house when you come in with a professor. You should be friends with your professors at Tufts, and we believe that free coffee is a great way to celebrate that.
Mayer Campus Center trail
Mayer Campus Center
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Grab your caffeine at the Campus Center's student-run coffee shop, meet friends for lunch, get work done in a social study space, or play pool. Downstairs, there's the cafeteria-style Commons and Hotung Café, a favorite performance space for comedy collectives, spoken word poets, and student bands. The Campus Center houses the Tufts Bookstore, where apparel, textbooks and dorm essentials can be found in abundance, and the Office for Campus Life, which administers the more than three hundred student clubs that make the Tufts campus vibrant. You can also board the free campus shuttle that makes a number of stops around campus and drops you in Davis Square for a quick subway ride to Boston.
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Grab your caffeine at the Campus Center's student-run coffee shop, meet friends for lunch, get work done in a social study space, or play pool. Downstairs, there's the cafeteria-style Commons and Hotung Café, a favorite performance space for comedy collectives, spoken word poets, and student bands. The Campus Center houses the Tufts Bookstore, where apparel, textbooks and dorm essentials can be found in abundance, and the Office for Campus Life, which administers the more than three hundred student clubs that make the Tufts campus vibrant. You can also board the free campus shuttle that makes a number of stops around campus and drops you in Davis Square for a quick subway ride to Boston.
Tour stop audio transcript
Grab your caffeine at the Campus Center's student-run coffee shop, meet friends for lunch, get work done in a social study space, or play pool. Downstairs, there's the cafeteria-style Commons and Hotung Café, a favorite performance space for comedy collectives, spoken word poets, and student bands. The Campus Center houses the Tufts Bookstore, where apparel, textbooks and dorm essentials can be found in abundance, and the Office for Campus Life, which administers the more than three hundred student clubs that make the Tufts campus vibrant. You can also board the free campus shuttle that makes a number of stops around campus and drops you in Davis Square for a quick subway ride to Boston.
Tour stop audio transcript
Grab your caffeine at the Campus Center's student-run coffee shop, meet friends for lunch, get work done in a social study space, or play pool. Downstairs, there's the cafeteria-style Commons and Hotung Café, a favorite performance space for comedy collectives, spoken word poets, and student bands. The Campus Center houses the Tufts Bookstore, where apparel, textbooks and dorm essentials can be found in abundance, and the Office for Campus Life, which administers the more than three hundred student clubs that make the Tufts campus vibrant. You can also board the free campus shuttle that makes a number of stops around campus and drops you in Davis Square for a quick subway ride to Boston.
Tour stop audio transcript
Grab your caffeine at the Campus Center's student-run coffee shop, meet friends for lunch, get work done in a social study space, or play pool. Downstairs, there's the cafeteria-style Commons and Hotung Café, a favorite performance space for comedy collectives, spoken word poets, and student bands. The Campus Center houses the Tufts Bookstore, where apparel, textbooks and dorm essentials can be found in abundance, and the Office for Campus Life, which administers the more than three hundred student clubs that make the Tufts campus vibrant. You can also board the free campus shuttle that makes a number of stops around campus and drops you in Davis Square for a quick subway ride to Boston.
Tour stop audio transcript
Grab your caffeine at the Campus Center's student-run coffee shop, meet friends for lunch, get work done in a social study space, or play pool. Downstairs, there's the cafeteria-style Commons and Hotung Café, a favorite performance space for comedy collectives, spoken word poets, and student bands. The Campus Center houses the Tufts Bookstore, where apparel, textbooks and dorm essentials can be found in abundance, and the Office for Campus Life, which administers the more than three hundred student clubs that make the Tufts campus vibrant. You can also board the free campus shuttle that makes a number of stops around campus and drops you in Davis Square for a quick subway ride to Boston.
Tour stop audio transcript
Grab your caffeine at the Campus Center's student-run coffee shop, meet friends for lunch, get work done in a social study space, or play pool. Downstairs, there's the cafeteria-style Commons and Hotung Café, a favorite performance space for comedy collectives, spoken word poets, and student bands. The Campus Center houses the Tufts Bookstore, where apparel, textbooks and dorm essentials can be found in abundance, and the Office for Campus Life, which administers the more than three hundred student clubs that make the Tufts campus vibrant. You can also board the free campus shuttle that makes a number of stops around campus and drops you in Davis Square for a quick subway ride to Boston.
Tour stop audio transcript
Grab your caffeine at the Campus Center's student-run coffee shop, meet friends for lunch, get work done in a social study space, or play pool. Downstairs, there's the cafeteria-style Commons and Hotung Café, a favorite performance space for comedy collectives, spoken word poets, and student bands. The Campus Center houses the Tufts Bookstore, where apparel, textbooks and dorm essentials can be found in abundance, and the Office for Campus Life, which administers the more than three hundred student clubs that make the Tufts campus vibrant. You can also board the free campus shuttle that makes a number of stops around campus and drops you in Davis Square for a quick subway ride to Boston.
Tour stop audio transcript
Grab your caffeine at the Campus Center's student-run coffee shop, meet friends for lunch, get work done in a social study space, or play pool. Downstairs, there's the cafeteria-style Commons and Hotung Café, a favorite performance space for comedy collectives, spoken word poets, and student bands. The Campus Center houses the Tufts Bookstore, where apparel, textbooks and dorm essentials can be found in abundance, and the Office for Campus Life, which administers the more than three hundred student clubs that make the Tufts campus vibrant. You can also board the free campus shuttle that makes a number of stops around campus and drops you in Davis Square for a quick subway ride to Boston.
Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center
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Dewick-MacPhie Dining Center and Carmichael Dining Center are our two all-you-can eat dining spaces. They both offer vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, Kosher, and Hallal options and host special events like Sundae Sundays and strawberry-fest. But that doesn't mean you can't get pizza and fries, and it's all ranked near the best in the country. Tufts Meal plans can also be used for food at Hodgdon Good-to-Go, The Tufts Kosher Deli Pax et Lox, Brown and Brew Café, and several a la carte eateries in the Mayer Campus Center. The dining halls are a social location – you'll spend your meals discussing current events, internships, or your weekend plans.
Pearson Chemical Laboratory trail
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The Pearson Chemical Laboratory and its Michael Laboratory addition house the Chemistry and Biochemistry programs. The second floor houses general, organic, physical, and analytical chemistry labs, as well as labs full of professors currently conducting original research. On the same day, you might complete an acid-base titration for a Chemistry 1 lab, and then move two doors down the hallway to assist David Walt, one of our professors and the founder of illumina, a gene sequencing company. Tufts is on the cutting edge of science -- our President, Anthony Monaco is a renowned geneticist and neuroscientist.
Pearson Chemical Laboratory
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The Pearson Chemical Laboratory and its Michael Laboratory addition house the Chemistry and Biochemistry programs. The second floor houses general, organic, physical, and analytical chemistry labs, as well as labs full of professors currently conducting original research. On the same day, you might complete an acid-base titration for a Chemistry 1 lab, and then move two doors down the hallway to assist David Walt, one of our professors and the founder of illumina, a gene sequencing company. Tufts is on the cutting edge of science -- our President, Anthony Monaco is a renowned geneticist and neuroscientist.
Aidekman Arts Center trail
Aidekman Arts Center
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Drama ensembles, a cappella groups, and dance troupes all practice and perform in the Aidekman Arts Center. You might find yourself here to take "The American Musical" in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, to see a student-directed and student-written production in Cohen Auditorium, or to explore the University Art Gallery exhibit on Jumbo the elephant. The Balch Arena Theater offers a unique performance space "in the round" for faculty-directed classics like "Next to Normal" and "Much Ado About Nothing". With 7 faculty-sponsored shows a year in drama and dance, more than 25 student-run performances a year, and more than 20 student run dance groups on campus, there's always a show to see! Plus, you'll have the chance to use practice rooms, rehearsal spaces, dance studios, and photo labs for class or for fun.
Granoff Center trail
Granoff Music Center
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The Granoff Music Center is home to Distler Performance Hall, named one of the best small recital halls in Boston, as well as music department offices and classrooms loaded with audio-visual technology. Walk through the building at night and you may hear an opera ensemble rehearsing in the performance hall or Kiniwe, an African drumming and dance class, practicing in the World Music Room. At Tufts, you can engage in music making at all levels, from beginners to the very advanced, and take lessons with music faculty members for credit, regardless of your major. We also have 16 department-sponsored ensembles and many more student music groups to participate in. You can even perform in Granoff All Night, a sundown to sun-up music festival each spring.
Africana Center
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At Tufts, you'll meet people from all 50 states and over 70 different countries; in classrooms, dorms, and dining centers. You'll benefit from the perspectives of people with different backgrounds, intellectual passions, and past experiences. Along with the Latino Center, Asian American Center, LGBT Center, Women's Center, FIRST Center, and International Center, the Africana Center is one of many institutions on campus that serves as an inclusive space for all and strives to develop appreciation for diversity at Tufts – that includes diversity of experience, background and thought. From student-run cultural organizations to a chaplaincy offering interfaith services and a humanist chaplain, we make it easy for you to connect with everyone.
Anderson Hall trail
Science and Engineering Complex
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The Tufts School of Engineering blends the resources of a top-tier research institution with the interdisciplinary education and collaborative project-based work of a smaller school. You can find many of our Jumbo engineers at Anderson Hall, behind me, and Halligan Hall, just down the street. Our six engineering departments with 8 ABET accredited degrees cooperate on 3 major themes through an interdisciplinary approach: Engineering for Human Health, Engineering for Sustainability, and Engineering the Human/Technology Interface. You can take advantage of the Gordon Institute of Engineering Management's programs or model concepts with LEGOs at the Center for Engineering Education and Outreach. You'll find countless research laboratories, and about 60% of Tufts engineers conduct research in a hands-on environement. 80% of engineers complete at least one internships before graduating, taking full advantage of the start-up and biotech culture in Boston.
ExCollege trail
ExCollege
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The oldest organization of its kind in the US, the Experimental College (or Ex College for short) hosts 30-40 unique classes each semester. The ExCollege is dedicated to innovative and collaborative learning and teaching. Students are exposed to subjects and teachers beyond traditional classrooms and discover possibilities they could have never imagined. The faculty come from a range of professions and include visiting lecturers, Tufts professors, and current undergraduate students! Courses about baseball sabermetrics, crafting podcasts, and harvesting solar energy keep Tufts an exciting place to learn...and teach!
Steve Tisch Fitness Center trail
Steve Tisch Fitness Center
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The Steve Tisch Fitness Center, opened in 2012, has over 8,000 square feet of exercise space available to both varsity athletes and all members of the Tufts community. We field 28 Division-III teams in the NESCAC. Our athletes pursue full academic schedules alongside their varsity athletics. So you're a student first here, but from national championship teams to competitive club and student-organized intramural sports, there's a level of athletic involvement for everybody at Tufts. You can find engineers on the field, athletes studying abroad and Jumbos balancing two sports. Connected to the Tisch Center are the Gantcher Fieldhouse, a 200 meter indoor track, Hamilton Pool and Cousens Gym.
Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex trail
Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex (CLIC)
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The Collaborative Learning and Innovation Complex is designed to allow scholars from various academic perspectives to bring their ideas together. It houses physics and astronomy, community health, and the graduate occupational therapy departments, but it also brings key faculty from engineering, human factors, and child study and human development to create research clusters for faculty with overlapping work. It is a testament to Tufts' commitment to interdisciplinary learning, but also to the importance of working together! The building is filled with collaborative study spaces and whiteboards that are open to all members of the community.
View of Boston trail
View of Boston from Tisch Library Roof
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The library roof has one of the best views of the Boston skyline around. Tufts is less than 5 miles from downtown Boston, providing access to a cultural hub and one of the best college cities in the world. During the school year nearly 2 out of every 3 people in Boston are students, so it's a young city built for students. You can take advantage of everything from concerts to internships to museums – all only a quick ride away on Boston's subway system: the T.
Davis Square trail
Davis Square
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Welcome to Davis Square in Somerville, an eclectic area listed on the 2016 top ten Best in the US places to visit by Lonely Planet. It's just a few minutes' walk down College Avenue or a short ride on the free campus shuttle. Jumbos go to Davis Square for a late-night cone at J.P. Licks, one of Boston's favorite ice cream shops, the latest movie or concert at the historic Somerville Theater, or a barbeque at Redbones. Plus there are exciting annual events – from the giant craft fair ArtBeat to the musical spectacles like the activist street band festival Honk to the local artist staple PorchFest. Davis Square also serves as Tufts' gateway to Boston: downtown is only a twenty minute subway ride away.
Museum of Fine Arts T Stop trail
Museum of Fine Arts T Stop
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The School of the Museum of Fine Arts (or SMFA) at Tufts was founded as the educational wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1876. Located between the MFA and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum along the Avenue of the Arts in downtown Boston, the school is perfectly placed to connect students not only to a community of artists within the school, but to a larger community of visiting artists and curators, the staff of the museum, and some of the best arts districts in the country through critiques, exhibition opportunities, internships, and apprenticeships. For undergraduate students, the SMFA at Tufts offers a Bachelor's of Fine Arts as well as a 5-year combined degree BFA + BA/BS program. While the campus is easily accessible by T, it is also connected to the Tufts Medford/Somerville campus through a free shuttle!
School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts
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The SMFA at Tufts offers an interdisciplinary fine arts curriculum. With the help of faculty and advisors, students design an individual curriculum that supports their interests and goals for the future. This type of instruction requires self-motivation and the willingness to ask for help and accept feedback. By working closely with faculty, who are all working-artists, you will learn to be a creative problem-solver, to set and achieve goals, and to innovate as you develop your conceptual interests. You'll be well prepared to push the boundaries of your field, whether you're preparing to become a studio artist, educator, tech innovator, or anything in-between. SMFA has always sent groundbreakers into the world, whether they are designing the screen of your iphone or producing pioneering bodies of work like alumni Cy Twombly, Joan Jonas, Leslie Hall, and Omer Fast.
SMFA Studios
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Here at SMFA you'll find a wealth of resources stretching from painting studios, printmaking shops, darkrooms, and ceramic kilns to 3-D printers, video editing suites, and computer labs. You'll also find a community of art-makers dedicated to helping you try out an area for the first time or take your practice to the next level. SMFA students have the freedom to work across disciplines, combining mediums in both traditional and innovative ways – from watching your paintings develop through a series of lithographs, to programming custom software to trigger video projections inside your ceramics. Students are also challenged to integrate their studio practice with a rigorous interdisciplinary liberal arts curriculum. Explore how research informs your studio practice, how studio practice transforms your research, and how the combination of both can powerfully impact the world around us!
Bendetsen Hall trail
Admissions at Bendetson Hall
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We hope you've gotten to know us through this virtual tour, but if you want to get to know us even better, you can register by clicking the link above or by checking out our blogs at admissions.tufts.edu/blogs. You'll find current students writing about their experience at Tufts as well as genuine admissions advice. The Tufts Admissions staff is committed to making this process as transparent as possible. We get thousands of applications each year, and we evaluate them using a holistic process. Your academic performance is important, but we also want you to tell us about what you're passionate about. By writing about what matters to you, and not about what you think we want to hear, you'll stand out and make your application a joy to read. Good luck!
